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COVID vaccines: the danger of journals being seen as substitute regulators

3:22 pm May 21, 2021

London: By Christoffer van Tulleken, UCL London, May 21 (The Conversation) A superficial reading of the history of vaccination might lead you to believe that it is simple. Dried smallpox pustules had been used for 1,000 years to inoculate people against smallpox before the first successful vaccine trial, conducted by Edward Jenner in 1796 on a single eight-year-old boy. […]

BBC accused of cover up in Princess Diana 1995 interview scoop

8:48 pm May 20, 2021

London: The BBC on Thursday issued an apology as an inquiry concluded that the media corporation had covered up the tactics used by journalist Martin Bashir to secure his famous 1995 interview scoop with Princess Diana, in which the late Princess of Wales opened up about her troubled marriage to Prince Charles. Lord John Dyson, the retired judge who led the […]

India’s Tests against England, Australia were not fixed: ICC

6:40 pm May 17, 2021

Dubai: The ICC on Monday dismissed claims made by news channel Al Jazeera that India’s Test matches against England (2016) and Australia (2017) were fixed, saying the passages of play identified as fixed were entirely predictable, and therefore ”implausible as a fix”. Al Jazeera in a documentary — ‘Cricket’s Match Fixers’ — released in 2018 […]

Second vaccine doses in UK to be sped up over variant concerns: PM Johnson

11:37 pm May 14, 2021

London: The second vaccine doses for the over-50s and clinically vulnerable in the UK will be accelerated amid concerns over the coronavirus variant first identified in India, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday. There will be only eight weeks between doses, rather than 12 weeks, Johnson told reporters at a press conference. If the variant first […]

British PM forced to defend India travel ban timing over Delta variant in Parliament

Looking at solutions for COVID-19 variant first identified in India: UK PM

10:23 pm May 12, 2021

London: File Photo Image Credit: Flickr Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said the COVID-19 variant first detected in India was of “increasing concern” in the UK and the country’s health authorities are looking at all possible solutions as its case numbers continue to rise in parts of England. During the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) session in the House of […]